Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA g..
ME- US OF THETWO STATES TOLD
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Three Seafsrers Meet with Bad Acct
dents While m POrt at BrunswioS--A
Clock Fifty Years Old Stin Keeping
Good riENe Ia Haraison County.
GEORGIA.
Ten thousand dollars is the price of a
license 10 sell liquor at Backshear.
Messrs. rritchet & Gilbert have bought
out Mi. W y. Joiner's grocery business
at TenniH.
I've prisoners that were confined in the
guard house at Sandersvllle cut out last
week, and made their escape.
The mate of the English steamer, Lord
Derby, who got his leg broken at Bruins
wick recently, had to have II amputated
Monday.
A commercial travellers trunk caught
IRE at The Livlngst on House at BlaGely
lew days ago and was burned with its
contents.
A young farmer of Pierce county has
been married four years and is The father
nov OF five children, the youngest being
tour months old, and he the young
farmer was married thirteen months be-
tore the birth of his first heir
j. NJ. Waldrop. living IN the Twentieth
district OF HARRISON county, has clock
that has been keeping good time for fifty
bought while young man, and is con-
sidered an heirloom in the family.
The houses on the old Doe place stu
ated on the tob of a hill Just beyond the
Double Branches. on the savannah road,
and five miles from Augusta, We're totally
destroyed by fire Sunday night. The
buildings destroyed wrrs house of two
rooms, and an unoccupied barn. The
fire is supposed to be tue work OF an in
cendiary.
Juddie Hill, of Macon, runs a dray
line. One of his horses is a valuable
blooded mare, worth at least $1,000. She
would have brought a colt in April. sun
day she was turned loose in the lot, and
began running around. In some way
while making a sudden turn, she tell
and broke one leg, which necessitated her
being shot.
a letter from Julian Burnett, formerly
OF Brunswick, now in Sierra Leone, West
Africa, to a friend, announces his intCn-
ton of visiting America and his Old home
IN the spring. When last heard from he
wrote about great fight with the native s.
AT that time he had just had the first
engagement, and his friends have been at
a loss to know who won the fight.
Hon, Thomas Nj. Norwood, ex.United
States Senator and Member of Congress,
has been elected "a commencement ora
toI W serve AT lhe approaching COM
mencement at Emory College at oxford.
Mr.. Norwood graduated at Emory in
1880, and the college shows its apprecia-
ton OF his brilliant career by bestowing
upon him one OF its highest positions. 1t
Is highly probable aud very much desired
that Mr.. Norwood will accept.
A young sailor of the Norwegian bark
Gender, now at brunswick, got shot ac-
cidentally Monday. some one had taken
shot gun 90 i1tsaztt fne Vessel, which the
r-s n arc took Hn and was playing with.
IL ~went orr unexpectedly, hitting a
sailor lying in hunk near by-cutting
on his thumb and mutilating two fingers.
six shot struck him in the abdomen.
What the result OF these latter wounds
will he is hard to tell yet as il was i'm
possible TO determine what injury they
had inflicted.
A sailor from the bark Fonda had quite
an experience at Brunswick Monday.
As one OF the steam tugs in port vas leaV-
Ing her dock the sailors boat got caue hit
between the steamer aud piling, and by
some unexplained complication the haw-
ser OF the boat caught him around the
ankle and threw him in the water and
dragged him some distance. The jerk
was sufficient to pull out part of his boat
while the rope was around his leg. What
prevented 1t from cutting OFF his leg is q
The Blakely correspondent Button
Springs says: Last Friday gentleman
and his wife arrived on the evening tram
aud put up at the Plat Hotel. Next
morning, as he was going to dry county.
be concluded to avail himself of the last
opportunity to wet his whistle. He re.
peated too often and was taken before the
Mayor and fined for improper conduct.
when he went back to the hotel and
frightened his wife until she was afraid
TO leave town with him, and put herself
under the protection of the hotel proprie-
tor. 1t took him three days To sober up
so as to resume his journey. he saws he
came TO Blakely a strong anti. Prohibi
ZIONIST, but he is now for prohibition for
ever.
AT meeting OF the City Council of At
lanta Monday, on motion the bids for
1000 shares of $25 each in the Atlanta Gas
Company, which had teen sealed up for
some time, were opened, the bidders being
present. Messrs. Thomas Il. Healey, Il.
j. Lowry. j. II. Porter, W. Helm and i.
Ii. Mecaslin made several bids. They
bid for POO shares $25 -. $50 so, $25 -. S26,
$26 Is, S26 90, $40 10, S27. $27 - and S2T so
per share. They also bid for the 1000
shares par and 6 per cent. over par.
equivalent to S26 90 per snare, or SOS. 600.
Messrs. Jones 4 Pratt bid for 1000 shares
$40 % per share, or SOL 500. The bids were
referred to the Finance Committee with
power TO act. The 500 900 will be ac-
cepted
FLORIDA.